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Leucoxene

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Leu`cox´ene    (lũ`kǒks´ēn)
n.1.(Min.) A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.
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The replacement of ilmenite by leucoxene during diagenesis has been known for a long time, but is often ascribed to different stages from early diagenesis in mildly reducing and neutral-acid tropical conditions (Weibel 2003) to late diagenesis (Al-Juboury et al.
Diagenetic influences on iron-bearing minerals in Devonian carbonate ... by Shogenova, Alla; Kleesment, Anne / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
Different kinds of mineral alterations taking place in the Devonian sequence during post-sedimentary processes have been studied: formation of authigenic leucoxene, anatase, apatite, pyrite, and goethite, dissolution of garnet, staurolite and kyanite, replacement of magnetite, amphiboles, titanium-bearing minerals and feldspar, formation of authigenic overgrowths of detrital feldspar grains (Kleesment & Paap 1978; Kleesment 1984, 1998).
Lithology and evolution of Devonian carbonate and carbonate-cemented ... by Kleesment, Anne; Shogenova, Alla / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
The banded appearance is actually a shear fabric with basalt altered to sericite/muscovite + dolomite +/- leucoxene +/- quartz.
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